National Affairs: Bar Examination

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William J. Fields of Kentucky last week wondered where he would stand on the list of applicants for a license to practice law in Kentucky. He had taken the State bar examinations; results would not be published for some time. He knew his papers would have to stand on their own merits. His examiners would have no business being indulgent to Candidate William J. Fields, even though they knew, like all good Kentuckians, that he is Governor of the State.

Governor Fields, whose term expires next January, won distinction by remaining away from his Inaugural Ball in 1924. No black-bottomer, he forbade dancing in the Executive Mansion after he moved in, announced that it would instead be open to any organization which cared to grace it with a prayer meeting. There have been no dances, no prayer meetings.

Before entering political life, Mr. Fields was a traveling salesman of wholesale groceries. Studious, he has accumulated his legal knowledge by exemplary use of his spare time.